Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-29


ary shall be paid regularly, and the ser
vices of the church be made as unctuous
and charming as money and experience
along the line OF art can secure.
A great wedding, marriage in "high
life" is announced.
The papers are full Of It.
Well, do they tell OF the worth mental,
moral, of the groom?
Do they speak of the deeds he he's done,
Of the accomplishments that make him an
example to his fellows!
Or, no, they tell about his money.
And the bride? Is she spoken of for the
loneliness of her character, the charm Of
her maidenly modesty, the excellence Of
her charity? Oh, no. The msgnihcsnce
OF her toilet is exploited, the cos,lipess
of her Jewels is commented upon, aud o
long list Of presents, often humbugs ct
that, is printed, with the names CT the
donors and the cost OF the articles.
Oh, it is Stiffness running rampant; il
is idiocy growing silly.
Ard as It is in our morals, so il is IN
our physical conditions. From one end
of the city to the other, from one side to
the other, the town is absolutely turned
up the roots. Mayor Hewitt is as power
| less and as devoid Of executive ability az
| imbecility itself. Neither he FOR the COM
mon council. nor the corporation counsel,
nor all the newspaper press combined,
can overthrow the power that comes from
felicitous combination of wealth, sudac-
| ity and ayarice. Years ago the order
came, stake down those wires" We'll,
are they taken down? Years ago an
ordinance was passed, "Trenches shall
remain open so long" Well, with the
exception OF a single trench dug 1T the
side of Mayor Hewitt's house, there
| is not one that has not been
open from three to ten weeks, and
some of them three months. There
are laws regulating the number OF pas
sepgers to be carried. Are they obeyed?
Packed in with the other human hogs,
packed in with the restles tides ct human
| itY, going up and down our streets, &ns-
wer the question. Our streets are filthy,
J our psvements are burlesques, our side
walks are numbered, impudent drivers
rule the streets, there ia not one single
physical condition On ell f0ur5 with the
law.
Bad place to live in, isn't Il?
| No, il isn't. There is not 8 more de-
liehtful spot in this great beautiful coun-
try than New York city os residence,
winter or summer. But it haa reached d
crisis. It has reached point in morals
which is appalling, and condition OF
aff4irs physically which is absolutely dis
gusting.
What is the remedy?
| Oh, well. / am not answering conun-
drums; am putting them.
RowARD's POINTS.
"Henrietts," Towards new comedy, is
! the novel hit of the season. Manager j.
| NJ. Hill has transformed the old UuiOn
Square theater into boudOir Of luxUri
GUS elegance and placed the new comedy
in q series CT frames worthy the picture
so deity drawn by my successful name
sake. The Union SQuSre is packed liter
ally every night, and the old-tine eign Of
'stsnding room only" Indicates the
amount OF prosperity that attends these
| fortunate individuals. Mr.. Crane never
appeared to such advantage in his life.
| He ie fitted with part in every Wey en-
! ioJab.e, and he makes the most Of it.
Mr.. Crane has grown q great deal in the
! last three years, but his read re-
tsins its normal proportions. There
seems TO be something the mstter with
Robson, don't know what; he is not q
fsyorite with his company, and rumor has
il that he and Manager Hill have had
| serious disagreemeDts. They ere moi OF
speaking terms, and slI business between
them is done through the medium OF
Joseph Brooks, the agent OF Robson and
| Crane. So tremendous has been the sue
cess OF "Hsnriette" that Mr.. Hill advises
Messrs. Robson and Crane to extend their
time, which they could easily have done
| by paying $4,000 to Van Amburg, but they
deferred it until Van Amburg sew the
advantage ne had, when he raised his
terms to $4,000. In my Judgment
"Henrietta" could run year IN this
theatre.
hear Of nothing specially new in the
thestric line. Will Palmer tells me that
while "Jim, the Penman," is filing the
home house, with the home company, to
greater business than was ever done be-
fore, the outside companies, Nos. and 3,
are astonishing the treasurer By the qaan-
tity OF the cssh receipts. hear thsG the
artistic excellence Of these outside COM
paBies almost equals that of the home
company, and Miss Ada Dyss is with
COMPANY No. l, as is James Whitney,
while Miss May Brooklyn sud George Ed
gar play the same parts in company No
3. l predicted when then this play was
| first produced in McVicker's Chicago
theater that if it were put on in the Mai
! ison Square thester, with the same cast,
Mr.. PaImer could run it for two years
without irtermlgsion. The diagnosis Of
that time l adhere TO. Palmer and his
associates have already made be-
tween $4,000 and 500, 900,
with the prospect Of IS much more easily.
see by the D5troit papers that Lofts hes
made CREST hit in character called
Meg in play by Green aud Helssco en-
titled "Pswn Ticket 30" Lolita is L0sta,
and that she achieves success in play
and part specially provided for her goes
without saying. She is admirably sup
ported By John Howson, George Boni-
face, Jr., Lillian Richards IN and Augusta
Rahmond. Lillian Richardson appears
TO have produced firss-elsss impression
and made pronounced hit.
Ned Harrigsn's return, with his
Leather Pstch," on the stage and Dave
Braham's marvellous orchestra in front of
it, hiss given q push TO things dramatic.
Hsrrigan's future is envied by none. EV-
cry one feels that he deserves all he has
and more. Power to his elbow,ssy l. Mart
Hanley, his manager, has hsd second
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